Windows 7: <non-existant> connection.

PolishHurricane

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Posts: 1585

3+ Months Ago

I recently installed Windows 7, I'm usually pretty good security wise. However I was playing a game of mine and it started lagging, so I minimized...

I use TCPView and it keeps showing a "<non-existant>" connection which is ESTABLISHED to different IP addresses. There is also one listening on local address 127.0.0.1:63586. Just a few minutes ago I had a "<non-existant>" connection to 206.16.13.71, if you view it on the web it's an apache server: http://206.16.13.71/

I do use a software firewall and a router firewall. However, I'm temporarily hosting my web server via my Windows 7 computer, so I have port 80 & 443 open to httpd.exe and forwarded on my router to this computer. Anybody know of a way I can verify that address is legit or know if windows randomly connects to apache servers?

Yeah I did a whois lookup. I was just wondering if that was legit or something.

Don2007

Web Master

Posts: 4923

Loc: NY

3+ Months Ago

There must have been something looking for that IP address, & it never connected. I would run netstat -an to see all the connections. Pay attention to the foreign address column for unwanted connections.

PolishHurricane

Mastermind

Posts: 1585

3+ Months Ago

I read somewhere that when a connection is running from a <non-existent> process the parent thread is not active anymore. So could it be that in Windows 7, if you run Apache and for example a spider connects to the web server, it may leave left over connections?